21 The Movie on MIT Blackjack Team - Movie Review
April 20th, 2008The Movie is about a group of MIT students who counted cards to win millions playing blackjack and beat the house in Vegas. The movie is based on Ben Mezrich’s best-selling nonfiction book “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions,”.
Ben Campbell (played by Jim Sturgess and based on Jeffrey Ma ’94) is a most gifted student in MIT. But he got one problem, money for his education. Super math genius Ben Campbell originally joins the ring in order to come up with the $300,000 he needs for tuition money for medical school at Harvard University, but he’s also gaga over the ring’s resident babe, Jill (Kate Bosworth). The team was short of one member since “Jimmy got a job at Google”. What starts out as a plan to make $300,000 and quit soon transforms into an addiction to the game and lifestyle as Ben begins to ignore all of his rational thoughts, the skill that made him an asset in the first place. In the midst of backstabbing and back room brawls with the very scary Laurence Fishburne, the audience wonders whether Ben will be able to return the clear-headed guy he was or if Vegas will destroy him.
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